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- adjective Unable to leave one's
chair , for some reason
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Examples
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Henry suspected that, panicked by the loneliness and debased status of the early months of widowhood, she was already looking for a second husband and was beginning to realize that a seventeen-year-old chairbound son was an obstacle to be carefully weighed by likely candidates against her late husband's money, her own ageing and desperate sexuality.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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It progressed very swiftly; within three months he was chairbound.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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Enlightened, I thought back to the previous week at Doncaster, seeing in memory Angelo giving a racecard to an elderly chairbound man.
Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981
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There are programs for just about everyone - for the homebound, for the chairbound, for people who need to get restarted after a health setback.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Lenny Bernstein 2011
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Leo has Parkinson's disease and is virtually chairbound.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Judith Woods 2011
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Leo has Parkinson's disease and is virtually chairbound.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Judith Woods 2011
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For the first time passengers are treated as customers, rather than chairbound invalids to be fed at times and with the foods on their diet sheets.
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For the first time passengers are treated as customers, rather than chairbound invalids to be fed at times and with the foods on their diet sheets.
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He imagines that entire families -- grandpa, grandma, father, mother, and kids -- are chairbound and slippered as they gather around
Recidivism. 2009
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At the time, I was also chairbound with a severely sprained ankle and so I wasn’t going anywhere anyhow.
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